I hope that the new meal concept will be better. However I had great salmon appetizer served with the chocolate cake on my recent CRJ flight from MUC to LJU after a dozen of Heimat meals which where not great at all.

Regards DC10

Austrian seems to offer good quality meals with Do&Co (and British Airways certainly does too), so that would be the obvious solution to this Tasting Heimat rubbish. It’ll come down to cost though, so I’m not holding my breath.

Yes, OS, LX & BA are currently better than the Heimat debacle, any other airline in Europe has worse in J ?

AZ is better for sure. Don’t know about AF.
LG (Luxair) is pretty grim, maybe on-par.
KM (Air Malta) tiny airline going bankrupt but has a 3 course hot meal on real plates with a tablecloth and champagne on FRA/MUC-MLA and you can even use the LH lounges and get M&M award miles so… 🤷🏻‍♂️

Air France and KLM. Neither offers hot meals regardless of flight length (which means you could be flying from Paris to Bucharest with just a cold plate). At least Air France do use proper crockery though - KLM offers the rightly-maligned “Wanders Box” and wooden cutlery. See below the shocker of a breakfast I had flying from Budapest to Amsterdam last year:

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Edit: I would take Tasting Heimat over the above any day of the week. At least LH provide proper crockery and hot meals on longer segments.

It's not just for breakfast either, the dreaded box of wonders is delivered on all flights in shorthaul segment.

AF is on par with LH on shorter flights where cold service is done, but as mentioned, falls behind when warm meals are given out by LH. And it's not like AF cold plates are better than LH cold plates either, they are about the same on average.

CS's advisors would argue that this is why airlines go bankrupt. ;)

Also Iberia (including Iberia Express) is quite good.

As far as I'm concerned, the dealbreaker is having an option. OS does have good food, no doubt about it, but it's hit or miss. All it takes to ruin your experience is flying on the day when they offer something you don't like and you go home hungry despite paying hundreds of euros to upgrade. Been there, done that, I will only book economy from now on.

If they wanna save money by loading less food, why not at least offer pre-orders? Is it really too much to ask for them to make three different meals per day, and loading them based on customer's advance choice when we pay 500 euros per 2 hours sector?

These days I rarely leave an economy seat dissapointed, but in business it's most of the time.

From 1 August no more apples. It was replaced with rather tasty but yet another chocolate.
I was told that more changes are coming to the catering but no details provided.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...abba20017.jpeg

Nice,
21 chocolates, instead of 1 Apple, did the intern run that past Carsten ? :D

Well at least they have started serving something tasty... An apple was an insult! Farmyard food in C??!! No thanks!

I, for one, liked the apple. Honestly more than a chocolate, even a nice one.

So now it’s “Welcome to nonstop choc you”...

Same here! They were actually incredibly fresh and had a great crunch. Although I doubt they were very popular, I will miss them on board.